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10Com. Nancy Baraza: Thank you very much. Uta-sign hapo. Unajua hii ni historia you are making. You are making history,so sign your name there. Thank you very much. I wish to welcome Commissioner Dr. Charles Maranga. He is coming late but itis because he had two tyre punctures on the road. I suffered the same same two days ago. So, I know what he must have gonethrough. He is normally very very early but we are happy he is arrived. Huyu ndiye Commisioner Charles Maranga ambayeameingia sasa. Dr. Maranga, we had done four presentations. We are going on the fifth one. Salome Ndwiga, Salome are youready? You come to present your views. Unatoka shule? Eeh you have closed? You have finished form four, Okey,umeandika kitu. Uta-highlight, nikupatie five minutes? Au hiyo ni kidogo sana. Five minutes Salome. Ten? Fine fine.Salome Ndwiga: I honour the members and the crowd in general. My names are Salome Ndwiga, mine are just a few pointsto talk about our rights. I am talking about Children’s right. The first is education. We have the right to be educated. So,children have to be given free primary education, secondary education and free university education for those who havequalified. I am saying this because, we are finding that children of poor parents are not being educated because the ministers orour leaders are valuing money more than what is needed. E.g. If it is for bursary children whose parents are known, theirparents are rich are the ones who are given bursary. But the children of poor parents are not given bursary. So, I would like toargue that for us to be educated, children should be given free education for primary, Secondary and University qualifiers.Then we are finding that money is more valued that education no matter how intelligent a person is. You find that a person hascompleted his academic course, he or she has got a very good grade, but you find that he or she is not being admitted for highereducation. This is because for those who have for example D’s and E’s, their parents have money, they just go through abackdoor, they go wanapeana hongo harafu watoto wao wanachukuliwa. We find that the one who has passed, for examplehas A, he or she has to tarmac for his education to be completed. So, I would like education to be given freely for it is our rightas children to be educated for we are leaders of tomorrow. Then for the parents they are forcing their children to earlymarriages. That is one case of why we are not educated. You find your parent is telling you to be married but your aim is to beeducated.So, we have to be given the chance to learn and for the ministers who are above should consider the intelligence more thanmoney or they should not value the richness of the parents. They should value the intelligence of the child who is learned.Secondly, it is about health services. Health services are to be provided freely in both urban and rural areas. For example, wesee that when you are sick you go to the hospitals, you don’t have money. It is because ‘Ajali haina kinga’. Umekutwa tu namaradhi haukuwa ready kama maradhi yatakuingia. Ukienda hospitali, madaktari wanakuambia, first you have to pay money.If you do not have money, you are just left there. You do not have somebody to comfort you. So, health services shouldbe provided freely in both urban and rural areas. Because for example, the expectant mothers, when they go to the hospitals,they have a lot of labour. But the doctors they are not considering the labour she has, so wanamwangalia tu wanamwambia “ Ifyou don’t have money get outside and you will be treated when you have enough money”.